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Genesis 2:7 and Genesis 2–3, Masoretic Hebrew with English translations, Sefaria Library, https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.2 (accessed 2026-08-10).

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Human Origins

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Direct Jewish scriptural text for formation from dust/earth and divine breath, with translation provenance.

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Evidence for the text and its reception context, not biological population history or a universal creation motif.
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Genesis, Qur’anic, and Mesopotamian sources include human-creation imagery involving earth, dust, clay, breath, or divine material, but each belongs to a distinct textual and living interpretive tradition.

Answer / theory: Many traditions use clay, earth, breath, or divine material to explain human creation. What supports it: Genesis and multiple comparative traditions. What is weak or disputed: Literal biological interpretation. Evidence level: Strong Evidence as mythic motif, weak as literal science.
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